Mainframes
Prior to the advent of the personal computer or PC, the minicomputer, and the microcomputer, the term "computer" simply referred to mainframes. What differentiates the modern ...
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Mainframe
In the broadest sense, any large computer—large in the sense of computing capacity, that is, not in physical size--can be classified as a "mainframe" computer. Other classes of compute...
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Mainframe Computer
Mainframe computers are large computers designed to be central sources of digital computer operations and to provide data storage for large amounts of information. The name came fro...
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Watching Google Inc. rake in advertising revenue "was a wake-up call within Microsoft," the company's top technical executive, Ray Ozzie, said Tuesday. But he said Microsoft plans to do more than s...
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Second-quarter earnings at International Business Machines Corp. rose 12 percent and beat Wall Street forecasts Wednesday, largely on the strength of IBM's software division and improvement in its ...
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Already on a tear lately, shares of International Business Machines Corp. got another bounce after the technology company reported a 12 percent jump in quarterly earnings and improved its outlook f...
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During his early days running IBM, Tom Watson Jr. said he was "the most frightened man in America."His father, legendary IBM founder Tom Watson Sr., died six weeks after handing over power.As he re...
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Innovation Factory is a new online software service showcased at a recent open house at the IBM Silicon Valley Lab. The software aims to help employees, suppliers, partners and customers work toget...
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The extremely air-conditioned computer farms known as data centers are the gas-guzzling jalopies of the technology world. Some require 40 or 50 times more power than comparably sized office space. ...
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Unable to topple Google Inc. on its own, Microsoft Corp. is trying to force crippled rival Yahoo Inc. into a shotgun marriage, with a wager worth nearly $42 billion that the two companies together ...
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Microsoft: Google was `wake-up call'
